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Well, no matter how long you program CSS, you can get tripped up by the most basic of things. Today it was psuedo element selectors. I wanted to style the placeholder text of an element to be accessible. That meant I needed a darker color. So I did this:

And so I did the same. And it worked. And I scratched my head. And then I stumbled across this explanation (scroll down to Chris Coyer’s comment).

Oh, good gravy!

We are so used to being able to list styles with browser prefixes, one after another in one style block, and ones that the browser doesn’t recognize get ignored. But this is not the same with element selectors in a group.

It was a trippy morning.

This post was duplicated from another blog of mine. From now on, I’ll be posting web help here, on this blog.

By the way, Urban Dictionary says “trippy” is a relatively new word with its roots in the word “trip,” from the 60s. That’s wrong. The word “trippy” comes from those days, too. Sheesh. Well at least all of you who think that is a new word don’t need it explained.